"They were called lunatics and imbeciles, idiots. The terms dementia or schizophrenia weren't known. Psychiatry was an infant science" In a Somerset town a small group of volunteers are slowly and ...

People, Not Patients” uncovers powerful stories from the South Carolina State Hospital, revealing lives of Bull Street ...

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...

Eerie photos show the interior of an abandoned asylum, which has featured in several seriously creepy films. Urban explorer Ben Stevens ventured to the long-deserted Medfield State Hospital, formerly ...

Introduction -- What can't be cured must be endured -- Biological psychiatry and the "happy drone" -- Communities, selfhood, and "loney crowds" -- From possessive to expressive individualism -- ...